Paris, 25 January 2006– GlobeCast, a global content management and delivery company , was chosen by France Telecom’s IPTV arm MaLigne TV for technical management of the French operator’s newest IPTV bouquet, Le Bouquet TV, beginning with its launch on February 1st.

From its technical operations center in central Paris, GlobeCast will be responsible for aggregating and managing Le Bouquet TV, which will offer thirty general and thematic channels. GlobeCast’s solution for France Telecom includes satellite downlink of the channels, MPEG-4 encoding, multiplexing, IP encapsulation and 24x7 supervision. GlobeCast will also create two mosaic index screens to provide viewers with an overview of all channels simultaneously. The finished bouquet will be distributed by MaLigne TV to its subscribers via France Telecom’s broadband Internet network.

The MaLigne TV service, which delivers television content over the subscriber’s broadband Internet connection directly to the TV set, also offers premium bouquets through TPS and Canal+ Group, as well as Video-on-Demand.

GlobeCast, a France Telecom subsidiary, has been working on projects with MaLigne TV since the service launched in 2003. Most recently, GlobeCast collaborated with the IPTV provider to aggregate and manage an interactive TV bouquet during the French Tennis Open in the Spring of 2005.

GlobeCast - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is a €350m global content management and delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients. GlobeCast is network agnostic and ingests once to deliver content to any network via multiple platforms, including direct-to-home satellite, cable, video-to-mobile, IPTV/video-over-ADSL, desktop broadband, and more. It is now the world’s largest provider of delivery services to live television-over-mobile operators and in 2005, it won Cable & Satellite International’s Product of the Year award for Best Outside Broadcast Technology for WING Content Exchange, its IP-based file delivery platform. The company’s global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centres throughout Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

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